[oclug] MythTV

[Johnathan Hicks]

On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 17:02:42 -0500
Olaf Baumann <olaf.baumann at pobox.com> wrote:

> 
> On 3-Mar-05, at 1:07 PM, Phil Labonte wrote:
> 
> > I miss the OCLUG opn this topic.
> >
> > Can someone help me out on hardware they have used
> > that is compatible with MythTV... specifically the
> > video card and the TV tuner card...
> >
> 
> I'm going with:
> Hauppauge PVR350 for both capture and display
> AMD Athlon 1800PR (overkill considering PVR350 has hardware encoding 
> and decoding)
> 2x120 GB ATA drives mounted as a single filesystem through LVM as 
> /home/mythtv/
> 
> I can't say that it's fully operational yet, but that's my fault, not 
> the hardware.

What follows are some notes from experience:
A friend of mine has that same card and eventually had to stop using it
for output (still used for input though) due to a few reasons, bugtastic
kernel and X drivers, no XV in X, and a large amount of overscan on the
tv-out. He eventually got a cheap nvidia card to do tv-out with which
works very well. That card also appears to have an allergy for VIA
chipsets.

--John